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title	categories	types	origins	years	cpus	params
Televideo Personal Mini PM/4T	Computers	Professional Computer	U.S.A.	1984	Zilog Z80A	name image company company_name specs tabs adverts comments oc_id source Personal Mini PM/4T /media/museum/photos/televideo_mini-pm4t_1.jpg /companies/televideo Televideo label value NAME Personal Mini PM/4T label value MANUFACTURER Televideo label value TYPE Professional Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1984 label value KEYBOARD Unknown label value CPU Zilog Z80A + Intel 80186 label value CO-PROCESSOR N/A label value RAM 1024 KB (some systems may have more or less memory) label value VRAM N/A label value ROM Unknown label value TEXT MODES Unknown label value GRAPHIC MODES Unknown label value COLORS Unknown label value SOUND Unknown label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS RS 232C (Two) - RS 422 (Serial port - Four) - Centronics label value BUILT IN MEDIA 5.25'' disk-drive label value OS InfoShare OS (OEM version of Netware) label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in PSU label value PRICE $6000 adverts title subtitle text image US AD. JUNE 1983 This advert puts forward network capabilities of Televideo systems. ... If you want a personal computer that gives you professional performances, it's obvious that you have a lot of choices for today.\ But there's only one with choices for tomorrow. Televideo ... /media/museum/pubs/televideo_pm4t_pub_1.jpg title subtitle text image US AD. AUGUST 1985 /media/museum/pubs/televideo_pm4t_pub_s2.jpg author date text dop hegger (Netherlands) Thursday 29th May 2014 The TeleVideo PM4 was one of the first dedicated fileservers. It could serve up to 4 IBM (compatible) Pc''s.\ As a server running infoshare (indeed the earliest version of Novell) is could handle record and file locking. I know because, as technical support manager at that time, I introduced this system in Middle and Northern Europe. have a nice day author date text Stuart (Montreal) Sunday 1st January 2006 Came across this site- great. Sold over $10MM of Televideo-INFOSHARE (aka NOVELL) in Canada- few believe me when I tell them that infoshare 1.0 was the original NOVELL! Also sold 1,000 ALTOS Xenix/Unix CPU's a few years later- another great system!(from Dave Jackson-ex Dec) good luck! Stu author date text Chris (New Jersey) Wednesday 20th July 2005 I recently picked up a pm/16t I believe. Haven't tested it yet, came with a few disks. Hope I'll be able to image them properly. E-mail me if you have one or whatever. Better yet join the yahoo group. author date text David Bellamy (Pecker world) Saturday 5th April 2003 I own a large ball of wasps. 411 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230603105710/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=411 2023-06-03

The Mini PM/4T was the multi-user version of the Televideo PC compatible. A video terminal was used for interfacing directly to the system.

The InfoShare Operating System can run many multi-user programs or execute most single-user MS-DOS programs.

The PM/4T can be linked to up to four computers (PCs or Televideo's PM Workstation [a terminal]).

It was sold for $6000, and a 16-user version was available at $9000.
A $99 card was required to connect each PC to the system.

Igor Pronin reports :
I was one of the first users in Finland. Infoshare Operating System was actually Novell Netware. In the begining it was version 1 or 1.1 but it was soon upgraded to 1.2. As a server running programs off the server, it was faster than from a local hard disk of a 12 MHz AT.